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Their ABC and the school that tried to end racism (by being racist)
Last week, the ABC aired its latest British borrowing, the first episode of a documentary program called ‘The school that…
Fifty years of lies about domestic violence
Exactly fifty years ago, the world’s first refuge for women fleeing domestic violence opened in London. After her small Chiswick terrace quickly filled to…
The really worrying news in Newspoll for Scott Morrison
Reporting on today’s Newspoll has focussed on seat outcomes, a bit of a mug’s game as it assumes equal swings…
Time for ADF chief Angus Campbell to go before he’s pushed
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has never shirked from hard decisions, and for the first time in some years a minister…
What triggered Melbourne’s union protests – from on the ground
What actually triggered the mass civil disobedience by construction workers last week in Melbourne? The following is a record of…
What did we tell you about Chairman Dan’s ‘roadmap’?
The Spectator Australia, Sunday 19 September 2021: Daniel Andrews has this afternoon delivered his roadmap for freedom for Victorians…We can…
Beware Stumbling Joe’s mumbling, Scotty
When they were talking the other day in Washington the other day, did Joe Biden tell Scott Morrison his recipe…
Indefinite detention is the Australian way, Mr Littleproud?
And the Julia Gillard Award for Hyperbole (pronounced hyperbowl) goes to Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud. He believes the Melbourne…
No, New Zealand is not Aotearoa
“Create your own pepeha to celebrate te wiki o te reo movement.” Given that estimates range between about 4% and…
Why is Victoria heading down a dead end street with prostitution law reform?
New South Wales model of decriminalisation and deregulation of prostitution has failed to protect workers in the sex industry while empowering…
Keating, Turnbull and Rudd: the new Three Stooges
Three questions in today’s quiz: Who couldn’t care less about party or national loyalties once the prime ministerial pension kicks…
We salute the Trotskyite press (sorta)
First The Age called the Melbourne protests correctly. Now, even the Trotskyites have made points worth noting. Red Flag, their…
Australia’s vaccine mandates: a violation of international law?
The Covid-19 Directions adopted by Australia’s governments have the effect of violating the rule of law when they excessively interfere…
Now it’s the great vape conspiracy
The ongoing conflation of vaping and tobacco industry e-cigarettes is an intentional misdirection and a dangerous one. The strongest observation…
Why is Victoria Police fighting media freedom?
Whatever your views on the Melbourne protests, here’s something you should be concerned about: the attack on media freedom –and transparency…
Limiting access for the unvaxed to public places will likely breach the Disability Discrimination Act
Your correspondent is a retired lawyer who these days prefers gardening to litigating. Spring in the Victorian High Country is…
Unis still stinging students while claiming Covid-poverty
In the era of Covid-19, change is everywhere. I have spent the past 18 months adapting to the Covid-19 university experience.…
The US will help mend fences with France – but climate may be the price
Around the time of the April 2016 submarine announcement – a contest between Germany, Japan and France – there was…
We salute The Age
You read that right. We salute The Age. Bravo! Three cheers for The Age! We could not have bettered their…
What to do when you live under a despotic government?
Our Morning Double Shot editor takes a different view than I on the relationship between law and morality when it…
The rule of law is cracking in Victoria – and so is the Labor establishment
Victoria, but perhaps more specifically Melbourne, is in serious trouble. Law and order is not just breaking down, it’s already cracked. When a supporter of…
Passport to hell
Let’s be frank. If a vaccine does not prevent infection or transmission, there is no scientific basis for a vaccine…
The deplorables down under
There’s a whiff of les gllets jaunes in the Melbourne air today. That and the smell of flares. For more…
If we’re all such good friends and allies, there’ll be no carbon tariffs? Right?
Almost daily, supposedly pro-business outlets publish material calling for net zero emissions, carbon taxes and the abandonment of coal in…
Don’t pity those cheese-eating surrender monkeys, the French
Witnessing the melodramatic outpouring of Gallic histrionics at Australia’s surprise but masterstroke decision to ditch the overblown, over-budget and already…